Damascus – Qatar will provide natural gas supplies to Syria with the aim of generating 400 megawatts of electricity per day, to a measure to help address the serious shortage of electricity from the War Country, the Syrian state news agency Sana reported Friday.
The interim interim minister of interim electricity of Syria, Omar Shaqrouq, said that Qatari supplies are expected to increase the daily supply of electricity provided by the state of two to four hours per day.
According to the agreement, Qatar will send 2 million cubic meters of natural gas up to date to the Energy Station Deir Ali, south of Damascus, through a pipe that passes through Jordan.
The Qatar state news agency said that the initiative was part of an agreement between the Qatar Fund for Development and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program and “aims to address the serious shortage of electricity in the country and improve its infrastructure.”
The economy and infrastructure of Syria, including electricity production, have been devastated for almost 14 years of civil war and Crushing Western sanctions Government Tax of former President Bashar Assad.
Those who can pay it depend on solar energy and private generators to compensate for the low power supply of the State, while others remain most of the day without energy.
From Assad was expelled in a rebel ray offensive In December, the new rulers of the country have struggled to consolidate control over the territory that was divided into de facto mini-states during the war and to begin the reconstruction process. The United Nations in 2017 estimated that at least $ 250 billion rebuild Syria, while experts say that number could reach at least $ 400 billion.
The United States is still a circumspect about the interim government and the current president Ahmad al-SharaaThe former leader of the Islamist insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Washington designates HTS as a terrorist organization and has been reluctant to lift sanctions.
However, in January, the United States facilitated some restrictions, issuing a six -month general license authorizing certain transactions with the Syrian government, including some energy sales and incidental transactions.
